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Exclusive Books is one of South Africa's largest bookselling chains with stores throughout South Africa, and one store in Gaborone, Botswana and one in Windhoek, Namibia. As of 1 December 2013, the chain is owned and operated by a private group of investors. It was previously owned by the Times Media Group (TMG), after TMG took control of Avusa.
a chain of brick and mortar stores that began selling books online relatively late, in 2008, after ending a marketing alliance with Amazon: Defunct as of 2011 Half.com United States: Online only: is an online bookstore which sells second hand or used books in United States: Defunct as of 10/31/17.
Used bookstores (usually called "second-hand bookshops" in Great Britain [1]) buy and sell used books and out-of-print books. A range of titles is available in used bookstores, including in print and out-of-print books. Book collectors tend to frequent used book stores. Large online bookstores offer used books for sale, too.
The South Bank Book Market, London, England. Used books typically become available on the market when they are sold or given to a second-hand shop, church used book sale or used bookstore; they are usually sold for about half or three-quarters the price of what they would cost new, though rare books and others still in demand or hard to obtain might sell for more than this.
By 1904 the company had stores across South Africa and continued to expand to meet demand for news during World War I. The company was floated on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in 1903 to raise £120,000 [3] (equivalent to £129,500,000 in 2017 based on its economic share). [4] By 1928 the company was publishing most of South Africa's newspapers.
As a collaboration between the Publishers Association of South Africa (PASA) and the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Cape Town Book Fair was launched in 2006 as an international book fair in Sub-Saharan Africa. The fair is now known as the South African Book Fair (SABF). The PASA decided to change the name in November 2013 ahead of the 2014 fair to ...
Although boeke is an Afrikaans word, the plural form of the word for "book", the Boeke Prize has only been awarded to novels written in English. Launched in 1995, the award was made mostly to first novels or works: 12 of the first 19 winners were debut works. The books were judged by a panel of book critics (40 in 2008). [1]
Johann Christian Ritter (25 July 1755 – 9 September 1810) [1] was a German in the service of the Dutch East India Company who came to South Africa in 1784. He was the first to print in the Cape , the earliest record is an almanac titled "Almanach voor't jaar 1796".